One of the management strategies in handling drill cuttings is the use of low temperature thermal desorption technology which goal is to produce oil-free solids for disposal by distilling off the oils from the cuttings and recovering the oil to be reused as drilling fluid. A retort analysis was carried out on the oily and cleaned cuttings to determine the percentage of oil and water content at the temperatures of 350°C and 500°C. The percentages of oil in the oily cuttings are 11.2, 19.4 and 9.6 at 350°C and 13, 14.6 and 23.0 at 500°C and the percentages of oil in the cleaned cuttings were 0.24, 0.21 and 0.23 at 350°C respectively. The concentrations of chlorides and heavy metals are 820 and 0.002mg/l respectively. The result obtained meets the regulatory requirement of oil on cuttings (OOC) of less than 1% by weight, eliminating future environmental liabilities. This study reveals the efficiency of TDU process in the recovery of oil from drill cuttings.